Papers sought on all aspects of Visual Arts in the West: photography,painting, drawing, graphic media, sculpture, mixed media works andinstallations, video, digital media, architecture, urban planning anddesign, indigenous art, museum studies, special collections, onlinecollections, public arts, and more. The West is defined very broadly toinclude everything west of the Mississippi River in the United States,Alaska and Western Canada. Particular interest in environmentally focusedand earth-inspired art works.

Topics may include but are not limited to:--topographical landscape illustration produced during early explorations--classic painters of the Westâ€"Catlin, Moran, Remington and Russell--California Impressionism--the Taos artists colonies and early painters in New Mexico--Regionalist painting of the 1930s in the Southwest, California, and Texas--painting in the Pacific Northwest--painting in Alaska and Western Canada--architecture and urban design of indigenous peoples and colonial settlersin the West--early modernist and postmodern architecture and urbanism in the West--perceptions and attitudes toward the West / the uniqueness of the West--Manifest Destiny and the West / politics and art of the West--depictions of women, Native Americans, Mexican-Americans in Western art--issues of the "other" in Western art--depictions of frontier life--women artists, Native American artists, and Mexican-American artists fromthe West--depictions of the West by artists from the Eastern U.S. and foreign artists,--ecology and environmentalism in Western art and architecture--portraiture in the West / depictions of famous Westerners--early modernists who painted the Western landscape--modernist, abstract art, and Surrealism in the West--depictions of the urbanized and suburbanized West--Earth Art--public art and memorials in and about the West

Since the 1970s, the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA has sought to fosterinterdisciplinary study of popular and American literary, historical,visual, and other cultural and media texts. We like to think we are aunique organization that pioneered the study of Popular Culture before itwas cool. While our offerings have grown over the years to include areasof international study, we still invite scholars and artists to share theirperspectives on American life in the diverse region of the Southwest.

Information about our areas of study, graduate student awards, conferencetravel, lodging, and the organization can be found on our regularly updatedwebsite:

SWTXPCA.ORG

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